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THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY, AUGUST 8, 1904. GEVS WORTH 'SEARCH IN VAIN FOR THE VEILED WOMAN WHO ABANDONED AN INFANT L FORTONE RE STOLEY Wealthy Residents of New- port Robbed of Diamonds | and Precious Stones of Es- | | timated Value of $200.000 POLICE OX LOOKOUT FOR BOLD THIEVES Crime Is Believed to Be the Work of Gang Organized for the Purpose of Looting Summer Homes at Resort I ‘r i » POLICE ARREST [NRULY PASTOR Colored Minister Is Seized in the Church as He ‘Ends Prayer at Service Little One Chuckles Gleefully in lts New Home. [OUTCOME OF A DISPUTE Appears That Mother Selected Jackson as Victim. |Deposed Clergyman At- tempts to Hold His Posi- tion and Law Is Invoked o i clal Dispatch to The Call. OAKLAND, Aug. 7.—The baby who PG, SN was left at the Jackson home last night by a veiled woman is chuckling glee- fully, after the careless way of babies. Perhaps at the same time the unhappy mother who dares not acknowledge him SAN JOSE, Aug. 7.—Amid mingled applause and protests Captain of Po- lice David Campbell led Rev. J. E. Transue from the chancel of the Afri- can Methodist Episcopal Church im- is sobbing bitterly because she can mediately after the opening prayer. never see her again. The child This morning when Transue arrived does not know nor care. He is wonder- at the church he found the door padded against him and was forced to wait outside until a husky brother kicked it in and cpened the way It was upon application of the regu- the affairs of the Jackson family’thor- | jar board of church trustees that Cap- | tain Campbell invaded the church and ing how he can get his toes into his mouth. That is the biggest problem of his existence at present. Whoever the woman was, she knew KALEIDOSCOPIC SHIFTS IN NAVY DEPARTMENT and shift- eaus of the taken d the Board of of ything pon the AMFEIICANS WANT TO place SEE BULLS KILLED . Large Crowds Go Over Southern Cali- Line to Witness Work of Matadors. T—A their ideas George Bureau ———a CHINESE ALMOST DIE IN A BOXCAR PRISON Six Monzolians Atte pting to Smug- gle Themselves Into America Fepn ot O Jave Narrow Escape FURTHER s <O To still fu n cretary W the na »ndition of the Navy De tment is certainly a most rema and unprecednted one, and As- Secretary Darling and other o inent employes in the several food Il have considerable extra eir hands for some time. ust strike the person un- . 2 notiens prevailing in the Wybeher Fplls. Sl Eneses. umed adaptability and TACOMA. Aug. 7.—A Dawson dis- officers, ranking mnot lower | Peter Buchholz. the largest manders, to fill the position her on the Klondike, has - eau. Such, how- 4, lieaving ities of ‘ustom. in the navy, which nd dollars Pacific *ome a fixed fact, limited only | such safeguards as United. States | prescribe Up to 1853 the; d construction of ships was | control of captains of the | naval constructors being | te and having no rank. Si Comy is the prinei- ved Buchhoiz erican side. ———— Those Who Care. se who care for the grandest stage through the heaith- = high hills and scenery that makes reser seats on for Yosemite Valley. for a seven-day trip, . is $43.00. Ask about - navy, subordina . California. tor. The Bureau of Yards and Docks | was likewise under the control of a | navy captain until April 4, 1898, when | bureau. ADVERTISEMENTS. been narrowed down to those of navi- | | gation, equipment, ordnance H steam engineering. The corps of engi- ‘ :As I OR lA ‘neen having ceased to exist as a dlm‘ | tinet and special branch in the navy, Por Inf: i Children | any officer above the grade of lieuten- | ant ecommander “may be appointed The Kind You Have Always Bought chief of the Bureau of Steam Engi- neering. 1In the navy rank and knowl- Bears the Signature of edge are synonyms. CASE OF CAPTAIN CONVERSE. The case of Captain Converse is a lustration. He was a candi- | e position of Engineer in but, failing in getting it, was content to accept that of chief of the Bureau of Equipment in October last, and held it until March, when he | was shifted into the Bureau of Ord- nance vacated by Charies O'Neil. And now he has landed in the Bureau of Navigation, having been successively chief of three bureaus in less than ten zh one of the offices quires special technical wledge. Captain Converse will prob- y make a better desk admiral than id as a seagoing officer, for he has had less sea duty in his forty- two years and eight months of service than 80 captains, 120 commanders and 8 lleutenant commanders. He has had v years and nine months | which five years and three| the last twenty-six | last cruise being as captain ship Illinois, which ran vas damaged in the iania, Nerway, in July, that he has good ex- thi on of Commander Newton t Mason as chief of the Bureau rings to the fore an of- from his service ed for the position. July 24, 1865, and | had eight sea two ars ¥ six a total of thirty-nine At present he is “incinnati xclusive of at the naval academy, hore duty, he has been ars on shore service, eleven ich he spent at the tor- gun foundry bureau and grounds, gaining an experience e theory and practice of ordnance Is, without which no one is com- discharge the important f chief of the Bureau of Ord- UNLUCKY LIEUTENANTS. Commander Newton is among the vemaining of the classes who ered the Academy in 1364-65-66, con- uting the se-calied “hump.” Officers )f prior vears gained their promotion to highe ades rapidly, but those in the hump” remained = stationary as lieutenants for more than twenty years, wtting gray in the service without the of rank and salary. It took Mason twenty-two years to become a licutenant commander, which rank he held three years, and then, through the operation of the personnel law of 1869, he was promoted in Novem- ber, 1896, to be commander. Command- er Mason is 54 years of age and will not g0 on the retired list until October 14, 1812, He has therefore eight years be- fore him of active service, for which duty he is qualified by years of labor and experience., and he is likely to! prove a thoroughly competent chief of | bureau of ordnance. The British battleship Common- | wealth, of 16,350 tons normal displace- ment, 18,000 horsepower and a calcu-| lated speed of 18.5 knots, had her eight- | hour full speed trial July 7, resulting in an average horsepower of 18,558 and a speed, as taken by six rums over a measured mile course. of 19.1 knots. | The thirty hours’ trial, under 70 per| then the chief of the Bureau of Con-!cent power, developed 12,769 horsepow- that condition. struction has been a naval construc-|er, 179 knots speed and a coal con- | toes were teetotalers and survived to! sumption of 1.68 pounds per unit of horsepower. Another continuous run | thirty hours with one-fifth power gave | the law was changed and a civil en- | 3644 horsepower, 11 knots speed and ' The section hands at Sabine refuse t h g y o gineer was appointed chief of that| consuming 1.74 pounds of coal per unit | work unless protected from the pests. | The bureau chiefships open | of horsepower. The ship and engines The mosquito catchers say they will! to the officers of the line have thus | were huilt at the Fairfield yard, Glas-: stand pat. gow, the keel being laid June 17, 1902. and | The Commonwealth will be ready for!up by a “union” consisting of two ne- sea during the winter or early next| year. Eight ships of this type are un-| der construction, the average cost of each, including armament, being esti- mated at $7,000,000. The ship just tried | is fitted with sixteen Babcock & cox water-tube boilers. ———— The cost of a thing cannot be meas- ured by its price. Wil- { knov ~# | prevented the pastor from continuing | | the services. It is claimeq that Transue | } has been superseded in the pastorate and that Rev. J. C. Taylor is the right- | ful pastor i As proof a letter is produced from Bishop Caldwell, in charge of the Pa- cific Coast section of the African Meth- | odist E pal church, removing Tran- | sue and appointing Taylor. There has | heen deep feeling against Transue for | some time, and a petition was sent to | | | the Bishop to have him removed | —_————————— BUTTERFLIES STRIP | FOREST OF FOLIAGE | | Millions of Insects Are De\uudn‘l Trees on Boundary Line Between | Shasta and Trinity Counties. | | REDDING, Aug. —Butterflies by | | millions are denuding the summit of | | | Mount Bally of all vegetation. That is | | | the statement of H. T. Bush, tinner | | land plumber of Weaverville, Trinity | ! County, who has just returned to his| | | hcme from a trip to the top of the mountain on the boundary line be- | tween Shasta and Trinity counties. Bush says that the air above the tim- ber line on the mountain is filled with insects that are eating the leaves and bark clean fro: the brush that grows there. He scys the butterflies are working down the mountain and that they soon will be in the timber line. | They seem to be of one species. — CHEAPER FUEL IS PROMISED IN DAWSON note left with the waif e to a son of the Jack- while a student of the California. Jackson say that they htest idea who could | the child, and they| :ason why they should ed for its guardians. apparent clew is that offered oughly. In the reference i sons who die University c Mr. and M have he Activity of Rival Companies Has Re- lith and Norma Werly, Price sfied that they saw the et Fio - Senioy sobaas ot man who left the child. oo The two ng women w returning TACOMA, Aug. 7.—Coal at Daw- home and entered the building from 'son has dropped to $10 per ton < side. The woman|through the rivalry of companies entered from the ice and they met at| the head of the stairs. The girls say that the woman carried a bundle and seemed nervous, and that as they went to their parent’s rooms she hurried down the hall toward the Jacksons’ apartmenas The baby is being most kindly cared for at the West Oakland home. He is healthy, well-nourished child about 6 months old. A careful search of the clothing failed to reveal any marks by owning coal mines at Coal Creek, near Circle and Five - Fingers. The fbr- mer will land ten thousand toms in Dawson before navigation ends and the other company will have nearly as large a supply. Fuel will be cheaper next winter than ever before. e WILL GIVE THE KING A BIG GOLD NUGGET Klondike Miners Will Present a Valu- which any identification could be had. Preci: Regardinz his identity there is nothing| 20I¢ m‘“’H"_’ i v S - upon which to work except the nots is Majesty. and the name “Harold Truman” on the TACOMA, Aug. T7.—Richness of are being taken at Dawson to raise a fund to purchase the nugget. e e STOCKTON HAS FIFTY I THOUSAND DOLLAR FIRE clothing. the Knodike is to be advertised by . - <+ presentation to King Edward of an = e eighty-five-ounce nugset taken last T\] | spring from French Gulch. It is pure STR A GE L\lON | gold devoid of quartz. Subscriptions s J L | ISKS INCREASE Hay and Grain Warehouses of Dick- Mosquito Killers’ Problem| '™ & Sacgacy Jre Bumed toMianager C. H. Markhmn | SIOCEION. Aug 5-—Tbe hay sad " g 2 grain warehouses of Dickinsen & of the Southern Pacific Guernsey were destroved by fire early a this morning. The loss is estimated at | $50,000. e MODJESKA TO SERVE ! AS BABY SHOW JUDGE | General Manager Charles H. Mark- ham of the Southern Pacific is pon- dering over the queerest strike on rec- } _ I C T squi Catc Tni i ord. e Mosquito catchers UM% Famous Actress Will Pick Winners | practically tying up construction work Among Infant l;:’"""““"" at in that part of the country, for the 3 San Diego. section hands cannot work unless pro- SAN DIEGO, Aug. tected from the ravages of the insects. | Modjeska, the famous actress, has The union consists of just two Dbeen selected to enact the rather try- negroes, who have made a life study | IDE role of judge at a baby show to be held at Tent City next week. ————— Assailants Are Released. TACOMA. Aug. T7.—Miller and Campbell, convicted without jury for assaulting Frank Slavin, an ex-prize- fighter, have been released on tele- graphic orders from Ottawa. of the work, as their methods show. They steal among a swarm of mos- quitoes after dusk with bits of straw and bags of snuff. The insects are peculiarly sensitive in the region of the third rib. The cunning negroes tickle that part of the anatomy with the straw. When the insect opens its | 7.—Madame } | | and head AIMS AT DEER; SHOOTS A MAN Washington Minister Makes' Mistake and Hunter Falls With Bullet in His Breast VICTIM WILL RECOVER Unsuspecting Nimrod Moves in Brush and a Second Later Is Badly Wounded e Special Dispatch to The PORTLAND, Or., Aug. moving in the brush is what Rev Samue! E. Meminger, pastor of the Mount Taber Methodist Church of Portland, thought he saw in Cow Creek Canyon yesterday morning. He fired into the brush and Wesley Pyle, a young man living in the canyon coun- try, fell with a bullet just over his heart Pyle, accompanied by the horror| stricken minister, came to Portland | this morning. The physicians at the| hospital *where Pyle is being treated believe the wounded man will live, al- most without doubt. The scene of the shooting is the wild- | est portion of Southern Oregon. Pyle| was cared for as well as possible under the circumstances, and his strong con- stitution wiil aid in his recovery. Not bsing aware that he was near/ any one, Rev. Meminger, who was spending his vacation in the canyon, watched a form in the brush for some time He feit confident it was a deer — A deer | and as soon as he could discern any- ng he fired. Then lieving himself alone, pain. Pyle, also be- reamed with _—— — GRANDMOTHER RISKS LIFE FOR CHILDREN ' Aged Woman Rushes Into Burning Building to Rescue Little Ones and Is Badly Burned. SPOKANE, Wash, Aug. 7.—Mrs. Jasper Deanes, aged 34, was seri- ously burned last evening while res- cuing her grandchildren from a burn- ing building in the heart of the busi- ness district. Mrs. Deanes is the mother of Mrs. Oliver Taylor, who, with her husband, conducted a fruit stand, which was destroyed by the fire. The famgy lived in a small building back of the fruit stand. When the blaze started Mrs. Deanes rushed into the building and carried two children to safety, then | returned for the baby, which she | thought had been left by Mrs. Tay- lor. A falling wall imprisoned the aged woman, and before policemen and firemen could drag her out she was badly burned about the arms, back Two firemen sustained burns to their hands in rescuing the heroic woman. B —— IMPROVED MESS FOR MILITIA AT MANEUVERS Adjutant Gneral's “Office Authorizes Ten Cents Per Diem for Extra Articles. SACRAMENTO, Aug —Orders will be issued Monday. August 8, from the adjutant general’s office author- izing an expenditure by commanding officers of regiments, battalion of ar- tillery, companies, troops, batteri signal corps and detachments of sani- tary corps, of 10 cents per diem for the purchase of extra articles for the mess of all enlisted men participating in the combined maneuvers of the United States and State treops near Atascadero, San Luis Obispo County, August 13 to August 27. —_——————— A woman's worth is usually more than she can extract from her hus- band’s pockets. s ADVERTISEMENTS. Grip Pains It would be utterly impossible to imag- ine anything more distressing than La Grippe pains. They are simply inde- scribable, and seem to be composed of all the misery sensations known. Yet they can be relieved. and in a very short time, by taking Dr. Miles’ Anti-Pain Pills | the greatest remedy on earth for pains of any kind. Their soothing influence upon the nerves is felt throughout the entire system. “I had La Grippe pains ail over me. and I was in_such distress I thought I could not endure it. I thought of Dr. Miles' Anti-Pain Pills, and after taking 3 doses the pain disappeared. and I slept peacefully. My brother has a sweiling on his neck, and uses them. as they ease the pain and leave no bad effects like quieting powders.”—ADELIA LANE, Portage, Mich. If they fail to help, your druggist will refund your money on first package. 25 doses, 25 cents. Never sold in bulk. mouth to laugh they pour snuff down | its threoat. The mosquito sneezes to death. The negroes are peculiarly adapted to the work because of their color, which is not easily distinguished in the dark. To white men the work would be fraught with peril. For the Delay Is labor of killing mosquitoes the ‘“‘nig- gers” have been receiving $1 75 a day. They want $2 25. During the week that Markham has been wondering how to arbitrate the strike, numerous substitutes for the expert slayers of the insects have been suggested. Gatling guns were pro- posed. They have been tried before but found impractical. Ammunition | is too expensive and wounded mos- | quitoes have been known to tear up sections of the track in the death agony. i Another method once tried proved too costly. A herd of Texas longhorns into whose bran mash gallons of Ken- ! tucky moonshine had been poured, were driven out for mosquito feed. The insects became intoxicated and were easily chloroformed while in | Many of the mosqui- Selling dates: August 8, 9, 10, arn their descendants to say always, cusses on the rum.” t To Markham the affair is no jest.| The construction work of | the Southern Pacific in Texas is tied groes. —_— Anburn Man Killed by Lightnine. AUBURN. 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